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1566504

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including (a) the South West or (b) the Avon and Somerset authority in the specialist rape courts pilot.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>On 16 June 2022, we announced the Specialist Sexual Violence Support in the Crown Court project at three locations: Leeds, Newcastle, and Snaresbrook in London.</p><p>This project is ongoing and we are still in the process of implementing measures, such as trauma informed training for staff, to improve victim experience at the court stage. We will continue to monitor progress against the two aims before making decisions on further rollout, whilst continuing to work closely with the police, Crown Prosecution Service and judiciary so that learnings from the project contribute to ongoing national Crown Court recovery efforts, and bring swifter justice for rape victims.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/01/2023 13:45:05 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1566521

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Community Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has set targets for the promotion of renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to community energy policy is set out in the Net Zero Strategy. This includes re-establishing the Community Energy Contact Group. This forum considers the role that community energy can play in the delivery of net zero as well as support for community energy projects from Ofgem, which welcomes applications from the sector to the Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The Government is also helping local authorities and community energy groups to work together to develop projects within UK Growth Funding schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 122211 122212 122213 question first answered 19/01/2023 14:58:23 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1566531

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Community Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department has made on promoting renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to community energy policy is set out in the Net Zero Strategy. This includes re-establishing the Community Energy Contact Group. This forum considers the role that community energy can play in the delivery of net zero as well as support for community energy projects from Ofgem, which welcomes applications from the sector to the Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The Government is also helping local authorities and community energy groups to work together to develop projects within UK Growth Funding schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 122210 122212 122213 question first answered 19/01/2023 14:58:23 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1566534

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Community Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of the Government’s policies on promoting renewable energy generation from community-based schemes.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to community energy policy is set out in the Net Zero Strategy. This includes re-establishing the Community Energy Contact Group. This forum considers the role that community energy can play in the delivery of net zero as well as support for community energy projects from Ofgem, which welcomes applications from the sector to the Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The Government is also helping local authorities and community energy groups to work together to develop projects within UK Growth Funding schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 122210 122211 122213 question first answered 19/01/2023 14:58:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1566535

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Community Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what data his Department holds on the number of community-owned renewable energy generation installations in place in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to community energy policy is set out in the Net Zero Strategy. This includes re-establishing the Community Energy Contact Group. This forum considers the role that community energy can play in the delivery of net zero as well as support for community energy projects from Ofgem, which welcomes applications from the sector to the Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. The Government is also helping local authorities and community energy groups to work together to develop projects within UK Growth Funding schemes.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 122210 122211 122212 question first answered 19/01/2023 14:58:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1566537

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Octopus Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the debate that took place in the House of Lords on 19 December 2022, whether the Octopus energy local tariffs referred to by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at House of Lords Hansard vol 826 col 219GC, are community owned.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>As the licensed supplier, Octopus Energy is responsible for any energy tariffs offered to consumers, including the local ‘Fan Club’ tariffs currently available in Market Weighton, Caerphilly and Halifax. Octopus Energy owns the renewable energy generation associated with these local tariffs.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 19/01/2023 15:01:27 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1565556

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation and Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of proposals by the French Government to ban domestic flights on journeys that would take less than two and a half hours by train.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	120067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>The latest CAA data available shows that there are currently just two scheduled UK domestic routes that are within 2.5-hour range by train. Based upon the French Government’s proposals neither of these routes would be affected as they form part of connecting international flights into Heathrow.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2023 16:36:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1564775

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) deported or (b) referred for deportation after reporting domestic violence or abuse in each of the past ten years.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	119064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics on all types of removals from the UK. The latest statistics are available at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fimmigration-statistics-quarterly-release&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAndy.Fowler%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9b2c291572ef44121d1e08daf2ed042c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638089397027116420%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2Z4prKwdDkkd3sASzcDsX60a4PvaA17ZMsoXNFR8I7g%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration statistics quarterly release - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>We do not routinely record allegations of domestic abuse except in cases where a victim makes an application for leave to remain on that basis. We would only record the allegation if the information was volunteered to us and was relevant to the person’s immigration status. Where we are informed of such allegations, they are not recorded in a form which can easily be reported. To provide the data requested would require examination of individual case files which could only be done at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/01/2023 17:55:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1564402

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue risk the Government has incurred from strike action by the transport unions since 1 January 2022; and what estimate he has made of the revenue risk the Government has incurred on the strike dates of (a) 24-27 December 2022, (b) 3-4 January 2023 and (c) 6-7 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	117784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>When the pandemic started Government put in place emergency agreements with operators to mitigate the financial impacts resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and ensure that rail services could continue to operate. These agreements transferred most financial risk to Government.</p><p> </p><p>Strikes can cause revenue losses up to £25 million on typical weekdays and £15 million on typical weekends, though losses depend on factors such as the nature of industrial action and unions involved.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 12/01/2023 09:22:18 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1564631

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passports, by number rather than percentage, have been lost by the Passport Office in each year since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	117785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The data held for secure delivery services does not break down losses by passports only.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number and percentages of passports and supporting documents confirmed as lost in the possession of providers of secure delivery services for each year from 2018:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>UK</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Overseas </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Passports Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Documents Lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Documents Lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Passports Issued</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Documents Lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of Documents Lost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>6,266,487</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>0.007%</p></td><td><p>414,812</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>0.02%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>6,152,384</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>0.003%</p></td><td><p>555,116</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>0.02%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>3,354,672</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>0.003%</p></td><td><p>593,388</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>0.01%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p>4,391,043</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>0.011%</p></td><td><p>432,441</p></td><td><p>157</p></td><td><p>0.04%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p>6,574,835</p></td><td><p>487**</p></td><td><p>0.007%</p></td><td><p>381,424</p></td><td><p>125***</p></td><td><p>0.03%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The data held does not distinguish between items confirmed as ‘lost’, and those that declared as ‘stolen’.</p><p>** Data currently held from 1 January to 30 September.</p><p>*** Data currently held from 1 January to 31 October.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/01/2023 17:05:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse